// Ninja Codegen, by Matt Welsh (mdw@cs.berkeley.edu)
// See http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~mdw/proj/ninja for details

/*
 * "Copyright (c) 1998 by The Regents of the University of California
 *  All rights reserved."
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 */

package rme.rmec;


/**
 * A convenience class to take a type and return a Java-source-code
 * compatible String describing it. for most classes, this is simple,
 * however, for arrays, a bit of syntax munging must be done.
 */
public class TypeDecomposer {
  Class cl;
  
  public TypeDecomposer(Class type) {
    cl = type;
  }

  /**
   * Return the name for this TypeDecomposer's associated type.
   * If the type is an array, rather than returning something like
   * <tt>[Ljava/lang/String;</tt>, will return <tt>java.lang.String[]</tt>.
   */
  public String getName() {
    if (cl.isArray() == false) return cl.getName();
    
    String tname = cl.getComponentType().getName();
    String aname = cl.getName();
    int i, index = 0;
    
    for (i = 0; i < aname.length(); i++) {
      if (aname.charAt(i) == '[') index++;
      else break;
    }
    for (i = 0; i < index; i++) {
      tname = tname + "[]";
    }
    return tname;
  }

  /**
   * Same as getName().
   */
  public String toString() {
    return this.getName();
  }

  /**
   * Return the Class associated with this TypeDecomposer.
   */
  public Class getType() {
    return cl;
  }

}